The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.

Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.